Hi. As you may know, I’ve opened the instance about 12 days ago. Right now, the instance is ranked 6th out of hundreds of instances.
We’re now using 4 vCPU and 16GB RAM server for 38€ which is very cheap (Not that cheap anymore. We’re using dedicated 8 CPU, 48GB RAM server for 160€). But we need donations to continue uploading media or even to increase the limit and move to a better server against instant load. Also we transfered 5TB of media only in 12 days 🤷♂️ Thanks to Cloudflare, this didn’t cause much trouble to us.
If you want to donate, here’s donation platforms we use:
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/xaegreal
- Ethereum (ETH): 0x4e4af5dc2f86235ac496542c2a1c00f3c4de40c6
- Monero (XMR): 48VYVWPKk65KiDiBaLhvSggKSbDQ4vtdq6HHbDa2HxWLiBWVcZ65gTgMBu7UeSUcm4dasAMMaKHnJNJSgRKi7Q5R5HN9adg
- Ripple (XRP): rJRiM1spu2s1vQUWLWuBAKdCXejRS4wjvi
- Dash: XhyDJx86o5XbwxeAazmqEtapaLJ7cpUcc5
We are donating, one question is there a preference as to image hosting to minimize the load and storage requirements here, specifically do you have a preference of which external host members use?
Thank you! People using lensdump, catbox.moe for this. You can still use this site tho.
Thank you, all I get is this error trying to post pics though. SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
Try a file that is smaller than 1MB in size, otherwise you will have to use an external image/video hosting site like https://catbox.moe/ or https://redgifs.com/
Thank you, we created a lensdump and are waiting on redgifs verification now.
I will fix this one. It’s about timeouts.
Do you accept ETH on L2s? What about stablecoins?
I really don’t know. I’m just using MetaMask for ETH. And not using stable coins because I don’t know how to keep them locally, like MetaMask, MyMonero or XUMM. I really don’t want to keep them on an exchange that has all my info.
Pretty sure MetaMask supports USDC and USDT no? Stable coins can definitely be kept in a self-custody wallet like other ETH tokens.
Wow looks like it really supports! So what should I share here for it? Is it same with ETH or what?
Hello, team at LemmyNSFW,
I’m delighted to see your instance growing and I completely support the idea of donating to ensure the longevity and quality of this platform. Your hard work in maintaining and developing this instance is very much appreciated.
However, I’d like to bring up the idea of financial transparency within our community. Have you considered using a platform like Open Collective for your donation system? It has been adopted by other instances, including Lemmy.world. You can see an example of how they use it here: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld
In my opinion, Lemmy.world is a shining example of how a Lemmy instance should operate financially. They provide transparency about their finances, which has greatly contributed to building trust with their users and the platform as a whole.
Considering we’re part of an open-source, decentralized platform, I believe this level of transparency is paramount. It not only helps in building trust but also encourages more users to donate, knowing exactly how their contributions will be utilized.
Moreover, seeing big instances openly donating back to the source code developers could set a wonderful precedent. This act of giving back to those who helped create the foundation of our platform would be a tremendous demonstration of gratitude and community spirit.
Again, I am wholeheartedly in support of donating to this community, and I hope my suggestion will be taken into consideration. Keep up the fantastic work!
Going to have to agree that something like this would be good. Lets people see all in one place where we stand and what is needed.
Thank you for your opinion! I would like to do this too but we don’t use single payment method. Also does Open Collective approve payments or should we trust the admin for this? And do admins attach bills somewhere?
Open collective (of which I have zero affiliation) is working on taking cryptocurrency payments. Last I checked it was in beta.
You can give evidence where you feel it would be beneficial. But yeh. You could always find work arounds.
If it’s something you genuinely want to explore, I’m happy to volunteer some of my time to help you with implementing and managing that.
The key thing I’d like to see in all instances, not just yours, is transparency in income, plus some sort of transparency as to how much that may be given back to the community and the source code development.
Honestly. What’s done with the rest, I care very little.
How big a proportion of potential supporters do you think would prefer to pay in crypto?
I’m in column A, but not column B. Just for “statistical purposes”.
If we were a non-NSFW instance, I wouldn’t add crypto but anonymity is important for some people (me included).
Just a headsup if you’re trying to get on Open Collective, it looks like that might be another patreon scenario:
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You should add dash, ltc and a few others to your donation list. I don’t hold much eth or xmr. I’d definitely send you some dash.
I will add a middleman tool to cryptos that will add support for like 15 coins. Coz I can’t use that much different coins.
Dash is one you can and should be using. It’s supported by more than a few crypto pos that can be used to pay for hosting, etc. Plus they should be relaunching a debit card that will let you spend dash online or off.
Throw up an address and can shoot you a donation.
I installed Trust Wallet for this. Can you try with minimum amount to test this please? XhyDJx86o5XbwxeAazmqEtapaLJ7cpUcc5
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How would I donate via Ethereum or Monero? I’ve avoided all crypto.
It’s about your platform. For instance I’m using Binance, so I click Receive, choose type of coin, enter address, choose network (for me always default one), send.
I was really surprised to see that youre using a .com-domain. That alone must be costing you a small fortune per year.
Domains cost like $9 a year.
Yeah it’s 9.15 on Cloudflare right now. Costly thing in our infrastructure is going to be storage and server specifications. I’ll migrate to S3 as soon as Lemmy 0.18.1 releases.
Didn’t know GitHub sponsors was a thing.
Neat.
(Also: new sponsor).
If I can make one request (not that I feel you should be in any way honored to follow it up or prioritize it):
The local blur policy/implementation is horrible.
I want to just scroll through content. Everytime I log in I must update the settings.
http://wefwef.app doesn’t even give me an option to adjust it.
We had local settings to auto expand, disable blur etc. but these settings has gone with the new update. I’m adding right now.
I’m not related to Wefwef or other apps, but you can try others like Mlem or Memmy.
Fully aware it’s unaffiliated, just that local settings was bad concept.
Yep. It’s a cheap patch more than a feature. We have to modify lemmy, lemmy-ui, lemmy-js-client to achieve this feature to be able synchronise to server. @[email protected] made a pull request for this, but its still blocked.
